Visualization Effects and Graphics

Inventor offers simple, easy to use visualization effects to enable realistic looking models in the viewport.

The effects available depend on the capabilities of your graphics hardware, operating system, and the Inventor graphics hardware setting in the Application Options Hardware tab.

The following illustrates the visual effects you can experience from the Inventor graphics system, and the table below shows the specific settings in use.

Graphics HW Setting	Quality	Performance	Conservative
Graphics Capability	Best visual quality mode Antialias is On Graphics multithreading is On Graphics Performance Optimization is On	Fastest mode Antialias is Off Graphics multithreading is On Graphics Performance Optimization is On	Slowest mode Most stable mode Antialias is Off Graphics multithreading is Off Graphics Performance Optimization is Off If you encounter stability issues with the other settings, use this one.

You can query your system to learn more about the graphics capability:

With Inventor running, go to ToolsOptionsApplication OptionsHardware tab and click Diagnostics. A dialog will display graphics hardware information when either the "Performance" or "Quality" option is active.